ambulance sirens and heavy gunfire rattled beirut in spiraling protests following the funeral of the slain security chief john into the night. a deadly blast rocks damascus is the u.n. peace envoy meets the syrian president to try brokering a truce in the war torn country. and dozens killed as the former stronghold of moammar gadhafi sees another assault by pro-government militias a year after the western backed libyan rebel we talk to a man whose family is attracted to see the city.

for i am in moscow i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t in lebanon mass protests in the capital are raging into the night with shots fired in the southern districts of the capital residents also report hearing ambulance sirens though those no confirmation on any casualties from the clashes. go has been following the protests that supposedly started as a peaceful march. started off as a potentially a rather more important march out during the funeral of the police official who was killed on friday in the bomb blasts that went off and in the capsule. then several hundreds of those people branched out and went on to storm the office of the prime minister they were the ones who had flags up the free syrian army or rather syrian opposition and also all kind of one thing got there and started throwing rocks and of course the very heavy police presence when trend started firing tear gas and

also fired several rounds of live shots into the air is believed that several people were heard but not by they got charts justice thomas says that followed the protests which are going on for essentially a perfect day now again after a problem we were on in the christian quarter of the it was on friday afternoon killing eight people among them police intelligence chief was someone who is known for his active and serious doubts and a lot of his supporters are saying that in fact it's syria that was behind the terror act in the route on friday they were the ones who began the protests which started on friday evening which continues to saturday bit cold for a day or rage on sunday we do know that the situation being has subsided but there was heavy gunfire when you go in the town of tripoli as well as on the outskirts of beirut's earlier today of course spoken word of a situation in lebanon and over

a middle east a growing number of lebanese accuse the regime in neighboring syria for friday's deadly blast international relations professor mark all and those says the assad regime would be the last to benefit from the situation. if you think about the legacy of the murder of hariri in two thousand and five that played very heavily against syria whoever did it to. me seems unlikely that assad's government direction would want to be in baltimore because it's all too easy to point the finger at them they all seem demonized in the west maybe outside forces usage of the word which are on the other hand perhaps there are cynical people who thought this would be a very good way of getting outside forces almost and maybe they then decided the poor old pulled the schoolteacher was expendable that could have happened we don't know the could be an entirely internal lebanese reason so you don't just political

we just want to root the business trip matching the risk to him so i think to leap to conclusions the moment although it's very tempting in this huge pressure to do it is dangerous meanwhile in syria a car explosion hit damascus sunday killing at least thirteen and wounding dozens of others a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station and busy neighborhood no one's admitted to the blast which is the latest in a series pardon me series of deadly bombings in syria's biggest cities in the last few months previously rebels and al qaeda linked groups said they were behind such it that its latest blast came as the international peace envoy let's not forget to try to broker a temporary ceasefire in the civil conflict the editor in chief of the tribune syria tribune media traveling abroad thinks the blast is aimed at darrelle and peace efforts. well they are trying to destroy what a liberal he is trying to do obviously there are countries that are not happy about . any success that he got he may have it all depends on the will of the countries

backing that up. the rebel groups are all controlled from the outside if somebody gives you money weapons and means of communication this means they can control you and these countries can have that i will cease fire in forty eight hours or even less if they are if they have that will see the rebels have absolutely no prospect of achieving what they want and what what can happen at the moment is a longing to struggle to weaken syria more and more and this is what we s.u.v.s hope will not have. been a new spate of violence in deadly sin the deadly siege of bani walid in libya a former stronghold of ex libyan leader moammar gadhafi the libyan army and a loyalist militia have been shelling the town accusing those inside of kidnappings arky spoke with one man whose family is currently in bani walid he asked us to shield his identity while he explain what's going on because he says he's scared for his life you may find some of the video we're about to show disturbing. i have

a call from my family in they told me that the situation there right there is really hard of all there is a heart of all it's all kind of. everywhere in the city the civilians building our fallen down even the venue where. we don't have a lot of medicine right now the horse the hospital keep in the in the people outside from the hospital the week that there is no food can go inside but only because of the militias that it's around the clothes and the roles that it is the food in the few all there are one and then away from the three sides they use the house that the iraqis and the gals women's and actually planned even the recording of. clearly that this in a million. and the bani walid siege is a resonated in libya's capital where hundreds gathered to protest against the deadly bombings they reportedly broken into the area around the parliament venting fury over the attacks that have left dozens dead and hundreds injured in the past

few days how do you know me as a kiwi editor of a pan african news buyer says those who backed the revolution in libya should share responsibility for the turmoil. obviously the government is behind this siege of bani walid it's clearly a violation of international law of human rights norms why are they targeting this town of one hundred thousand people this is totally unjustified and i think the state department should really be called out for it not to debate this siege on body wiley because they in fact it was that of backing the general national congress government as a pro u.s. regime only reason why the united states and nato went into libya in the first place was regime changed to seize of privatized the all industry in that country and also to seize the foreign assets of the libyan government which was in excess of some one hundred sixty billion dollars there was absolutely no justification

whatsoever for the lord it was waged against libya last year as reported separate as elaine e.u. states could get another boost in spain which is holding regional elections pro independence parties widely expected to win the basque region a challenge for the beleaguered government which also faces separatist calls in catalonia to the south economics blogger gonzalo euro says the debt crisis is the main reason behind the desire to break away. with economic problems and economic discontent you have the urge to split away from the majority because you feel that the majority as a minority you feel that the majority is not cognizant of your problems is not helping you to overcome and it's a certain kind of blind yourself that minorities will out that they feel that they are not being taken care of when in fact everybody suffer an equal be and this is the case in spain everybody is suffering under the sea and stop boss stuff alone but each independent region each of you just almost region feels a day in particular are being made to suffer its impact the entire country to be

a huge unemployment issue in spain fifty percent youth unemployment and twenty five percent joe adult unemployment and the problem of these. crisis that spain faces which is not going to have a happy ending and which is going to require drastic cuts. and just a generalized economic reboot of the country and that's why you're seeing so much protests and so much political gains for the independents because. there is a similar push against cuts in britain where around one hundred thousand people turned out in london to protest austerity scuffles erupted immediately after the marches hundreds of protesters broke away and try to score dropped one saturday's rally in london organized by train and attracted people from across the country prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions to come for the struggling economy arkansas refer as more. many people have turned out that is against the cuts they say have flatlined the economy now there are

people from all of the life there are no has lied about the n.h.s. there are police officers all feed the no light about cuts to fund like that this is in the months and people the many many families full across the age range feel that they've been affected in some way by the continued cuts my parents rely on the n.h.s. you can see kids getting worse my son's a steven he's paying nine grand to me. i work in the country sector and legal aid is being count so we won't be three hundred people and they won't be able to get the same house for might come next year and they just protect their rights they protect the interests of the rich i'm a bit unfair in the people who are it now because it's not just sports in this being affected. your employee to fix the euro crisis rumbles on we see the stars yeah get taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the usa the people simply saying that they've had enough here in london i think that thousand of them come out here so much against the austerity. the rally in

britain echoed feelings elsewhere in europe with angry crowds also gathering in greece and spain tens of thousands of greeks descended on options clashing with police as a nationwide strike was underway in madrid parents teachers and students marched to condemn imminent government cuts to education and cap three days of industrial action but the hands on the purse strings are moving further away from national capitals with new leaders agreeing to give even more power to washington with a deal that could bring a centralized banking supervision researchers drone russo's no summit will help solve the crisis until it tackles the root cause. look there's one thing that we've learned over the past couple of years is that when you're in the year say something about this crisis they usually mean the exact opposite i don't want to see the end of the crisis in sight probably means that the increases that went into depression or greenspan next to one of the contracts in economy affects you point and

unemployment stands at twenty five different regions and speed limits the session actually you fascist forces on the right we. move that we haven't seen since the one two thirty region what's happening is the stress the elections getting out of these things are getting a lot worse and the summit completely fails to address any of the structural problems which include most important. debbie and bruce between the financial sector which could be and a series of states which are. still to come here on r t stun grenades lighting up the streets of coates' city with police also firing tear gas at demonstrators angry citizens taking to the streets of a cop at all displeased with changes to voting law plus. brushes rosneft in line to be the world's biggest listed oil producer as britain's b.p. plans to get rid of its troubled piece of a joint russian venture all that and more after a short break. green

party candidate jill stein was arrested for trying to enter the presidential debate at hofstra university and now i know why there's never a third party candidate at the debates because the cops left the cuffs on them when they try to get in we all know we have a two party system so why do we lie to ourselves and pretend it's not that way it's the lying that bothers me it's the illusion that you have the freedom of choice when there are only two real options cut out the games just make the two party system the law of the land just make the two parties part of the government make their inner workings transparent and bound by the law and make it clear to every american that there are only two real ladders to climb to power stop lying to me and to everyone else about this democracy stuff what forty percent of the country

are independents with virtually no representation either cut the lies and make the two party system the law or make your lies become true by letting the candidates like jill stein and gary johnson have a simple conversation with obama and romney on t.v. hey if they are indeed extremists then this should show through at the debates right there's nothing scary about competition in an election. but that's just my opinion. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images kobold has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations are all day.

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and markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. thanks chris taking with us sixteen minutes past the hour now the cia is looking to expand its fleet of aerial drones and try to tap the white house to green light the move or earlier this week it would let the pentagon potentially increase its operations abroad including regular strikes in pakistan the cia's request came shortly after new troubling statistics emerged on attacks that officially target militants pakistan's interior minister said that of more than two thousand people killed by u.s. drone strikes eighty percent were civilians creations from pakistan's first political lobbying group things washington's only creating more militants with some

of its tactics. this is an. major blow us diplomacy in position in pakistan in this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement there's no evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives in the military in flushing out a terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists it is because of these safe havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan side of the border ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into parks done resulting in killing of bucks in the soldiers and bugs and civilians in kuwait more than one hundred people including eleven police officers have been injured in clashes as protesters took to the streets demanding against a demonstrating against a change to electoral laws police use rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse

crowds gathering to vent anger with the government for what they say is a constitutional coup the opposition says the amendments to be electoral good laws that give the government an advantage and of called for a boycott of the parliamentary vote scheduled for december first who ain't seen regular protests demanding democratic reform for more than a year earth rights or from stop imperialism dot com things the way from one arrest hasn't gotten enough international attention because it's in the u.s. to teach or can trust to keep the monarchy in power. well kuwait has long been a client state of the united states and more and more kuwait plays a. central role in the g.c.c. the gulf cooperation council kuwait it's been used as a weapon by the us a foothold in the region along the persian gulf and kuwait continues to fill that role it's a country that we don't hear so much about in the headlines but it is very much part and parcel of us a gemini in the middle east the the western media which is controlled by the same

interests which control wall street the western media it's not in their interest to tell the story of bahrain or kuwait in bahrain the united states has military interests as well as political and propaganda interests bahrain is a client of the saudis which is in turn a client of the united states kuwait similarly is also a client state and for that reason you don't hear about rampant human rights abuses you don't hear about the the attack on working people the way you do in places like libya or syria which were long since on the u.s. hit lists and emerges we thought in new company could take the title of being the world's biggest listed or oil producer could be a russian giant brosnan after after britain's b.p. moved toward selling its fifty percent stake in its joint venture in russia. in return b.p. gets fifteen percent of ross and half and about seventy billion dollars cash the state owned oil major actually wants to get its hands on all of g.n.p. beat and is apparently holding talks with its other shareholders if signed the

overall deal is set to become the second biggest oil agreement ever. a new top dog in global oil is bound to have some ramifications industrywide dotcoms business section outlines all of what it could be so check that out online. there is all to play for in monday's final and crucial debate between the main u.s. presidential candidates as polls but barack obama and mitt romney neck and neck while they trade sound bites on nationwide t.v. the other contenders say they're being inside line green party presidential nominee is jill stein in her running mate were arrested this week after trying to make their way to the venue for a last tuesday's debate blames the system for locking up nearly a third of the country's population at the upcoming election green party campaign manager ben man said he thinks the two party system is down to outdated laws and corporate influence the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s. but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the

actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to kill voters that choice those laws date from the cold war and they date from the mccarthy era in which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges jill stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. . voters keep their options open any other candidates get through the mainstream media blackout in their own televised debate brought to you by r t america we're also keeping a close eye on the upcoming election on our web site. will there be who are on the

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i'm joined today by dr max also a professor of political administration and author of the books investing rather than saving and the delightfully optimistically titled the crisis is coming to talk to us a thanks very much for speaking to me jamie currently finds itself in a relatively decent position economically can it keep that up germany is not at all in the driving seat germany's economy is functioning but germany is driven rather than driving by the process of going on unfortunately i think the current system will last for a while because the european political elite really has sworn to defend it whatever the costs and the car sign norma's.